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PLEASE THANK weeowens and OneYorkshireLass in posts below for the answers.

weeowens

What year did Tom Smith, a confectioner from London, invent the Christmas cracker to effectively market his sweets?

1847

http://www.tomsmithcrackers.co.uk/

weeowens

In which country did the inventor of glass baubles, Hans Greiner, reside?

Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_ornament

weeowens

Which global company ran an advertising campaign in 1931 depicting a jolly looking Santa Claus, an image that we still share today?

Coca-Cola

http://thisisnotadvertising.wordpress.com/tag/christmas/

OneYorkshireLass

1. 1847
2. Germany
3. Coca-Cola
4. Jacob Marley
5. 8
6. Both (I think)
7. Saint Nicholas
8. Sixpence
9. New Zealand
10. Switzerland

Sorry weeowens, didn't see you were answering as I hadn't refreshed

weeowens

In Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, who was Ebenezer Scrooge's deceased business partner?

Jacob Marley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Christmas_Carol

cagsd

OneYorkshireLass wrote: »

6. Both (I think)

I agree: From Wikipedia -

The druids – that is what they call their magicians – hold nothing more sacred than the mistletoe ....believe that mistletoe given in drink will impart fertility to any animal that is barren and that it is an antidote to all poisons.

vwcampervan72

lol well done to us all just went to post all the answers

Will leave it now as they're up there ^^

Ignore me .

Tooty_Frooty

Thank you to weeowens and OneYorkshireLass for providing the answers for this. Very kind of you :-)

thingamaBob

I would suggest that the answer to No 8 could be Thruppence.
Certainly, when I was a boy, we always had at least one silver thruppeny piece in ours.
As I understand it, it was originally (traditionally) silver thruppeny pieces that were used until these were replaced with a nickel-brass version in the 1930's and it was only then that the sixpence was used instead instead as they were silver, at least in colour.
Wiki Answers HERE says a silver threepenny bit, Wiki itself says a silver threepence or a sixpence in it's Christmas Pudding article but under sixpence it says As the supply of silver threepence coins slowly disappeared, sixpences replaced them as the coins put into Christmas puddings
There are sources for both answers so people must make up their own mind which to use.

OneYorkshireLass

thingamaBob wrote: »

I would suggest that the answer to No 8 could be Thruppence.
Certainly, when I was a boy, we always had at least one silver thruppeny piece in ours.
As I understand it, it was originally (traditionally) silver thruppeny pieces that were used until these were replaced with a nickel-brass version in the 1930's and it was only then that the sixpence was used instead instead as they were silver, at least in colour.
Wiki Answers HERE says a silver threepenny bit, Wiki itself says a silver threepence or a sixpence in it's Christmas Pudding article but under sixpence it says As the supply of silver threepence coins slowly disappeared, sixpences replaced them as the coins put into Christmas puddings
There are sources for both answers so people must make up their own mind which to use.

Uh-oh. I apologise if people entered sixpence and it turns out to be wrong